Mary Pilon Quotes
Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.
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I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.
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I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.
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To be honest, there is no place like home.
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My first job out of college was with HBO. I worked in a small sales office in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a little, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were always amazing.
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Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup.
